Anna Aspnes
Artplay Palette Snow Fun (b/g paper, transfers, buttons, boots, frame) Artplay Palette Snow Fun
Artplay Palette Sparkle (button, branch) Artplay Palette Sparkle
Artplay Palette Across the Miles (frame) Artplay Palette Across the Miles
Artplay Palette Chills (bird house) Artplay Palette Chills
Artplay Palette Red Suit (transfers) Artplay Palette Red Suit
MultiMedia Winter 1 MultiMedia Winter 1
Snow Spray 3 Brush Set Snow Spray 3 Brush Set
Watercolor FotoBlendz 1 Watercolor FotoBlendz 1
Warm Glows 2 Warm Glows 2
Winter Word Transfers 1 Winter Word Transfers 1

The Process
I began with a neutral background paper from AP Snow Fun that had some texture to it. I clipped the photos to a watercolor fotoblendz mask, duplicated them, used the artistic filter underpainting, changed the blending mode to hard light, reduced the opacity. I duplicated the original photo again and placed it above the underpainting layer, used the artistic filter paint daubs and changed the blending mode to hard light with a reduced opacity. Next I layered frames from AP Snow Fun and AP Across the Miles under the photos. I then layered transfers from AP Red Suit below the frames, added a layer mask and brushed out the hard edges. To complete the page I added more transfers, artstrokes, snow sprays, elements, word transfer (with a warm glow layered above and the blending mode changed to linear burn, reduced opacity), title and a multimedia winter branch.

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